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Interview With Upholland u3a On The Benefits Of Using Beacon

Posted 8th December 20218th December 2021 tonydarbyshirePosted in BENEFITS OF BEACON, GENERAL, HELP AND SUPPORT

We have now reached the milestone of 500 u3a’s who are using the Beacon System to manage their membership and groups. This video is an interview with Upholland u3a and is less then five minutes long and worth watching to gain insight into why they use Beacon to manage their u3a membership database. Interview on […]

Updated Video On The Power Of Using The Beacon System

Posted 5th August 202111th August 2021 tonydarbyshirePosted in BENEFITS OF BEACON, GENERAL, USING BEACON

The Home page of the website now has a short video of how the Beacon Database System works. It runs for around eight minutes and goes through the main features. Click on the Home page tab to watch the video.

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Beacon for Networks and Regions Meeting

Posted 11th February 202111th February 2021 kenwPosted in BENEFITS OF BEACON, EVENTS

The Beacon team invite you to Beacon for Networks, an opportunity for those involved with u3a networks to learn about what Beacon can do for them and their u3as, and an opportunity to tell us what you’d like to see. You can find a full agenda and you can reserve your place at https://beacon-for-networks-feb21.eventbrite.co.uk/.

Beacon Subscription Fees Unchanged

Posted 18th January 20212nd February 2021 kenwPosted in BENEFITS OF BEACON, GENERAL

Third Age Trust Trading has announced that the fees payable by u3as for using Beacon has been frozen at £1 per member for the 2021/22 financial year.

Resolving Email Problems

Posted 24th December 202024th December 2020 kenwPosted in BENEFITS OF BEACON, HELP AND SUPPORT, USING BEACON

Photo by Stephen Phillips – Hostreviews.co.uk on Unsplash Roy Biggs, the Team Lead for on-going help, gives us the following tips on how to maximise the chances of your Beacon email being delivered successfully, and how to approach problem-solving if problems do arise. An Insight to email Issues When a problem occurs with Beacon email, […]

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Beacon can help your u3a now – don’t delay!

Posted 27th October 202026th October 2020 kenwPosted in BENEFITS OF BEACON

Thinking of moving to Beacon? There’s no need to wait for Beacon 2. Joining now will aid your journey to Beacon 2.

Using Beacon to keep in touch during the lockdown

Posted 13th April 202021st April 2020 kenwPosted in BEACON PEOPLE, BENEFITS OF BEACON

This website asked U3As how Beacon was helping them during the lockdown. Read what Downe and Dunmow U3As told us.

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West Lothian Becomes 400th Beacon User

Posted 16th March 202016th March 2020 kenwPosted in BEACON PEOPLE, BENEFITS OF BEACON

West Lothian U3A became the 400th to benefit from Beacon. Meet their membership secretary, Helen Duffin, to hear how it went.

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400th Beacon U3A About To Sign Up

Posted 28th January 20206th March 2020 kenwPosted in BENEFITS OF BEACON

The number of U3As using Beacon has grown from 300 to 400 over the lifetime of this website.

“The source of all member information”

Posted 23rd October 201920th February 2020 adminPosted in BENEFITS OF BEACON

Beacon site administrator Andy from Canterbury and District U3A explains what led his U3A to implement Beacon and how they have benefited.   Canterbury & District have been Beacon users since December 2017. In common with many long-established U3As, in the early days we did admin with spreadsheets.  Later, we progressed to a Microsoft Access […]

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